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How do I export cookies(from specific webside) from fire fox mozilla and import to a new computer?

How do I export cookies(from specific webside) from fire fox mozilla and import to a new computer?

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You probably need an add-on for this.

You can view the cookies associated with the current tab (see Storage Inspector). So you could capture their values. But there's no built-in mechanism to import cookies that I know of.

There are developer-oriented proxies that allow you to intercept and change requests to websites, so in that case you could inject cookies into the request. But that's beyond the scope of this forum.

Type about:support<enter> in the address bar.

Under the page logo on the left side, you will see Application Basics. Under this find Profile Folder. To its right press the button Show Folder. This will open your file browser to the current Firefox profile. Now Close Firefox.

This is your current profile. Copy the folder As Is to a folder on a thumb drive. Then Copy the folder to the new system.

I'm sorry but I do not really understand what to do ...... I tried and did not find

You can transfer the cookies.sqlite database to transfer all the cookies and remove the cookies that you do not want.

You can copy files like these with Firefox closed to the current profile folder to recover specific data.

  • bookmarks and history: places.sqlite
  • bookmark backups: compressed .jsonlz4 backups in the bookmarkbackups folder
  • cookies.sqlite for the cookies
  • formhistory.sqlite for saved form data
  • logins.json and key3.db (decryption key) for Passwords saved in the Password Manager
  • cert8.db and possibly cert_override.txt for (intermediate) certificates stored in the Certificate Manager
  • persdict.dat for words you added to the spelling checker dictionary
  • permissions.sqlite for Permissions and possibly content-prefs.sqlite for other Site Preferences
  • sessionstore.js for open tabs and pinned tabs

You can use the button on the "Help -> Troubleshooting Information" (about:support) page to go to the current Firefox profile folder or use the about:profiles page.

Thank you for your response......It is very help me if you can help me with this ....... I do not really know how to deal with it.